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Authentic Baked Ziti

Total Time

1hr30mins

Prep

30 mins

Cook

1 hr

Baked Ziti is a wonderful dish all its own. When done correctly, it is actually very different from lasagna. If you get good ingredients and follow this recipe, you will end up with a delicious and unique authentic Italian meal that tastes like nothing you've ever had before!
A word about the ingredients: fresh mozzarella cheese is not the same thing as part-skim mozarella cheese. Use fresh mozarella in this recipe. Marzano tomatoes are a must for this recipe as well, but in a pinch, Progresso whole Italian tomatoes will do. Fresh herbs can be found in the produce section of most stores, but dried herbs can be substituted.

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Authentic Baked Ziti

Splendid recipe, with true italian technique! I made this ziti dish during a mountain vacation with my family in Colorado. Everyone loved it and was going back for seconds. The dish is moderately spicy, so if you have any low-heat tolerant eaters you may want to cut back on the spice. The only thing I would change would be to put the basil in near the final stages of cooking the sauce, otherwise you may lose that delicious basil taste!

This is fantastic. My kids aren't big on lasagna because of the ricotta so this was a perfect alternative. I love the combination of sweet and hot sausage and the pepper flakes. After I started putting the recipe together I realized that my parm was not usable. No worries, I'm not sure we even missed it.